Going Underground Hosted by Afshin Rattansi

Going Underground
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Aug 4, 2025 • 27min

Israel Has Trump & US Govt CAPTIVE Via Epstein Blackmail- Israeli Ex-Intel Officer Ari Ben-Menashe

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktree.com/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Ari Ben-Menashe, a former Israeli intelligence officer who alleges Jeffrey Epstein was an asset of Israel’s Mossad. He discusses why he believes the US is trapped by Israel to do nothing about the Gaza genocide, Jeffrey Epstein’s blackmailing of Ehud Barak and Bill Clinton to stop an agreement with Yasser Arafat for a two-state solution, how a number of US Presidents had been blackmailed by Israel using Jeffrey Epstein, how Rupert Murdoch’s first newspaper was funded for him by Israel, Trump wanting to bring peace to the Middle East but being held back by Israel via blackmail over Jeffrey Epstein, the brainwashing of Israelis during the Gaza genocide, the bombing of his house in Canada in 2012, how the UK got most of its military technology from Israel, Israel committing harakiri on itself over the Gaza genocide, why Donald Trump must end the Gaza genocide despite the blackmail, and much more.
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Aug 2, 2025 • 28min

Max Blumenthal: Israel Racing to a FINAL SOLUTION in Gaza, Military Action Needed to Stop Israel

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Max Blumenthal, Editor in Chief of The Grayzone. He discusses the Democrats’ and the media’s sudden switch to acknowledging starvation in Gaza and the scale of the carnage, Israel’s race towards a final solution in Gaza to the shock of the Democrats, the New York Times’ apology over its reporting of the death of a child which effectively ceded ground to the Zionist lobby, the role of NATO nation journalists as stenographers for imperial power, why a military intervention is needed to stop the Gaza Holocaust, the hypocrisy of Samantha Power and the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ doctrine over Gaza, why the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is a Mossad, IDF and CIA cutout, Trump’s threats against Russia along the lines of the ‘Kellogg formula’, the sidelining of Tulsi Gabbard and the relegation of her role to just saving Donald Trump’s skin, the potential for another war between Israel and Iran, and much more.
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Jul 28, 2025 • 28min

Curtis Yarvin: ‘Trump 47 is 10x More Powerful than Trump 45’ & the TOXIC US-Israel Relationship

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktree.com/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Curtis Yarvin, Author of ‘Gray Mirror’ on Substack and New Right Political Theorist. He discusses the ‘top-down’ approach of the Trump Administration versus the traditional bottom-up mode of operating, how Trump’s 2nd term is starting to mirror the FDR Presidency, how the Trump Administration’s approach to the India-Pakistan conflict became a new positive for the world, why the US is still involved in the genocide in Gaza and bombed Iran, the ‘toxic’ US-Israel relationship, why Trump 47 is 10 times more powerful than Trump 45, why Vladimir Putin’s winning position in the Ukraine proxy war means he won’t give Trump an easy off-ramp, why Trump is a mortal enemy for the Republican establishment, Iran resembling the USSR in the 1980s, and much more.
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Jul 26, 2025 • 28min

Was Epstein a Mossad Agent? Will Obama go to Prison? (Afshin Rattansi vs Alan Dershowitz)

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Alan Dershowitz, former Defence Lawyer for the late Jeffrey Epstein and Former Impeachment Lawyer for Donald Trump. He discusses whether Barack Obama will go to prison for fabricating the Russiagate hoax against Donald Trump with the help of the CIA and FBI, why a deal must be reached with Ghislaine Maxwell for the full truth to be revealed about Jeffrey Epstein. Afshin Rattansi and Dershowitz go on to debate the allegations that Jeffrey Epstein was an agent of Israel’s Mossad, whether Israel has something on Donald Trump for him to be supporting Israel to the hilt and bombing Iran, Epstein’s connections to Robert Maxwell, Israel’s mass slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, and much more.
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Jul 22, 2025 • 28min

HEATED EXCHANGE: Former Israeli Intelligence Official vs Afshin Rattansi on Iran, Gaza, & More

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Avi Melamed, former Senior Israeli Intelligence Official and advisor to former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. In a heated exchange, Afshin Rattansi challenges him on Israel’s bombing of Syria and Netanyahu’s support for ISIS and Al Qaeda against Bashar Al-Assad, former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert saying that Israel is close to a civil war, Iran’s reported successes in destroying economic and military targets inside Israel, the Muslim world’s outrage at Israel for its atrocities and genocide in Gaza, the Iranian people’s demand for nuclear weapons as a deterrent against Israel, Jews in Israel being unsafe while Jews in Iran are safe, Iran’s relations with the GCC, and much more.
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Jul 20, 2025 • 27min

Donald Trump: Ukraine & Iran, Peacemaker or Warmonger? Why the US MUST Withdraw from the Middle East

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Jennifer Kavanaugh, Director of Military Analysis at Defense Priorities and Former Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation. She discusses why the US-European plan to supply Ukraine with weaponry won’t make a difference on the battlefield and how Donald Trump has made it harder for himself to walk away from the Ukraine proxy war, Trump’s use of tariffs and his threats for secondary tariffs on Russia, the frustration over Trump campaigning on a more restrained US foreign policy and now going in the opposite direction, whether Trump would actually bomb Russia if peace talks fail over Ukraine, why Trump’s strike on Iran makes nuclear proliferation more likely across the global south, Vladimir Putin’s restraint against NATO amid the proxy war in Ukraine, Europe’s efforts to tie the US military down in Europe, why the US must withdraw from the Middle East, and much more.
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Jul 14, 2025 • 28min

‘Majority of Humanity HATES Israel’ Afshin Rattansi Challenges J Street Israel Executive Director

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktree.com/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Nadav Tamir, Executive Director of J Street Israel. He discusses Israel’s and the United States’ attack on Iran and whether this will push Iran towards a nuclear weapon, how Netanyahu convinced Trump to attack the Iranian nuclear program, whether Iran can destroy Israel’s cities with its missiles, the polling across NATO countries which show their populations have a negative view of Israel, the opposition to Netanyahu’s government inside Israel, and much more.    
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Jul 13, 2025 • 28min

‘Iran Could DESTROY the US as a Functioning Country’, Trump Putting ISRAEL FIRST- David Pyne

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to David Pyne, Deputy Director of the US Taskforce on National and Homeland Security and former Consultant at the US Missile Defence Agency. What capabilities does Iran have to devastate the US mainland? Why is President Trump putting Israel and Ukraine first instead of America First? Does Iran already have nuclear weapons? Who is feeding President Trump false intelligence to get him deeper into wars? All this and more is discussed on this episode of Going Underground  
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Jul 7, 2025 • 27min

'UK PM Sir Keir Starmer’s Endgame is WAR With Russia'- Andrew Bridgen Ex-UK MP

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Andrew Bridgen, former Member of the British Parliament. He discusses the increasing crackdown on freedom of speech by Sir Keir Starmer’s government, the campaign to destroy his reputation by the political class and the media, the false narratives behind the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, Sir Keir Starmer’s endgame being to drag the UK into an all-out war with Russia, and much more.
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Jul 5, 2025 • 28min

BRICS SUMMIT: China is US’ Target NO.1, India is BRICS’ Problem! (Prof. Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr.)

FOLLOW US ON ALL PLATFORMS: https://linktr.ee/goingundergroundtv On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr., Former Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund and Former Vice President of the BRICS New Development Bank, ahead of the upcoming 2025 BRICS Summit in Rio. He discusses the tectonic change of the political West’s relative decline in economic, cultural and even moral terms as a result of their support for the Gaza genocide, Brazil’s internal divisions when it comes to orientation towards the US or BRICS, the pace of BRICS de-dollarisation being more substantial than most people realise, the timid approach of the NDB even amidst the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, China being target number one of the United States and what the Ukraine proxy war has taught it, Narendra Modi’s India becoming increasingly a major problem for BRICS, the importance of Iran to BRICS and why Iran should have had a nuclear weapon a long time ago, and much more.

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